Ministry of Form [Melbourne]

Sunday, 12 February 2012

The
signs of gentrification are increasingly evident in different
parts of Brunswick. It is
often a misconception that to maintain a certain character of a place, the
place itself has to be locked up in a glass box and viewed from a distance. But
in reality, it is the people that inhabit Brunswick that give meaning to the
place. Brunswick is identified by the people that live, work and play there,
calling it their home.

The proposal is to create a public place that explores and exploits the human
qualities and activities that come naturally from Brunswick. A strong core of
visual artists has lived around the area for at least 15 years. A broader
artistic community has bloomed- writers, film makers, photographers,
ceramicists, musicians, sculptors and performance artists. By integrating an
arts based facility with a public centre, Brunswick ART-ficial Park fuses activity
with both architecture and landscape, a hub for the arts that flows on to
adjacent spaces.

Friday, 10 February 2012

Carefully
designed interventions can breathe life and encourage social pedestrian
lifestyles in deteriorating urban spaces. But as traditional solutions fail to
keep up with present ways of living, cities are realizing that integrating them
into the existing fabric is a challenge with solutions more complex than simply
compressing a standard building plan onto a narrow building lot. So the story goes..